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Friday, December 14, 2012
Horrors Can We Not Make Horrific News Any Worse Than It Already Is?
Posted by Denis C. Theriault on Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 12:14 PM
The actual and true updates on this morning's school shooting are all bad enough. So bad I feel like I've spent the past hour or so just dazedly looking at updates on my computer screen. But here's something to think about media colleagues: Don't make this shit any worse than it needs to be.
Make sure, when you out someone as a mass murderer who committed suicide, it's the right Facebook profile you're hastily passing around. Because here's what one Ryan Lanza, allegedly dead inside Sandy Hook Elementary, thinks about all your reporting.
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